There’s no denying it. Jessica Peters loves Allen Community College. Her journey has gone from student-athlete to becoming the college’s first woman athletic director. Peters remains in her head volleyball coaching position, which she has…

Iola Community Theatre will bring Roald Dahl’s timeless story of the world famous candy man and his quest to find an heir to life with “Willy Wonka Jr.” Director Richard Spencer is looking for a…

USD 257 Board of Education members were forced to broach that tickly subject — tax increases — at their meeting Monday night. With school funding continually under attack in Topeka, such a move is a…

Water rates for Iolans will go up 10 percent starting January in an effort to further replenish the city’s water fund reserves.  The higher water rates — approved with a deadlocked vote that required the…

Hot, dry weather has made its presence known around Iola in different ways, Iola City Council members were told Monday. Iola Water Plant Superintendent Toby Ross said the city is bracing for a series of…

A letter signed by five of the eight Iola City Council members and Mayor Bill Shirley asks higher powers to stop a recall vote for Councilmen Kendall Callahan and Ken Rowe.  The letter, drafted by…

GAS — Michael Peter “Pete” Troxel, Gas, was taken into custody Monday, following a four-hour standoff in his home after he allegedly threatened a convenience store clerk earlier in the day with a knife. Undersheriff…

Erma P. Hoggatt, 95, Iola, died Sunday, July 22, 2012, at Allen County Hospital.Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola. Funeral services will be at 10…

  Dear editor, Another mass killing in America. I hope the NRA (National Rifle Association) and GOP are happy, however the Dems are about as guilty since they, too, are afraid of the NRA. Caryn…

A recent Register editorial cartoon had a climate change doubter complaining about the effect of the drought on the food supply. “What am I going to eat,” he asks a farmer. “Your words,” was the…